A tiny app, growing one paw at a time.

A smoother little wardrobe

The item editor and pet interactions got a thoughtful polish pass, making it easier to dress up a friend and fine-tune their look.

• Polished item-editor buttons, modifiers, and click recognition.
• Improved the preview and cancel flow for item edits.
• Refined pet click routing and click-through preferences.

A steadier app

We continued refining the systems behind earned items, content delivery, accessibility, and day-to-day performance.

• Improved continuity for earned items between sessions.
• Refined inventory update flows and content delivery.
• Continued improving accessibility, performance, and catalog quality.

Download routing gets a polish

Improved download routing for shared links and campaign links, making it easier to get the latest build from wherever you find Paw-Paw.

More control as the beta grows

Paw-Paw added clearer controls around optional analytics and diagnostics as the public beta continues to evolve.

• Refined the settings experience for optional diagnostics.
• Continued improving the app’s transparency and control surface.
• The app version advanced to 0.1.9 (build 10).

A tidier cast

We refined the animal catalog and unlock progression, with further improvements to launch performance and the app’s supporting systems.

More hats, smoother loading

The wardrobe grew with a new set of Chinese, pan-Asian, Latin American, and Pacific Islands-inspired cosmetics, alongside continued tuning of asset loading.

Customization gets hands-on

Hats became much easier to place and tune, while progression kept working for players who had already made it well past the early levels.

• Added hat transform controls and click-through behavior for transparent pixels.
• Extended and then reworked the XP curve so progression does not flatten at level 15.
• Expanded automated coverage around progression and item behavior.

Collecting gets more generous

A big batch of new hats made the loot loop more rewarding, with guardrails to keep drops feeling useful.

• Added 19 new hat cosmetics and tuned their display sizes.
• Tuned the early XP curve and the rhythm of item drops.
• Improved click-through on transparent hat pixels and automatic update checks.
• Improved compatibility with existing hat layouts.

The first feedback loop

The early beta became a more comfortable desktop companion, with an update path and the first round of feedback-driven improvements.

• Added Sparkle auto-updates and a smoother release pipeline.
• Made the pet window draggable and added per-app hiding.
• Refined the loot flow, sleep timer, and settings.
• Added the rainbow paw-fire typing effect and redesigned permission onboarding.

Animals, levels, and a wardrobe

Paw-Paw grew from a tiny animated pet into a collectible desktop companion.

• Introduced animal avatars, XP progression, unlock levels, loot drops, and an inventory.
• Added a gacha-style collection flow, rarity balancing, and data-driven catalogs.
• Expanded the cast with animals including fox, koala, wolf, bear, hamster, pig, capybara, corgi, raccoon, and seal.
• Added typing effects, new hats, and groundwork for a signed remote-content pipeline. Remote catalog sync is disabled in the current production build.

The first paw print

The project began as a native Swift macOS desktop pet: a small friend that could sit beside your work and react to the rhythm of typing.